The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-05-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

F'lN rlpenlng fruit
"HALEBosK is at a higher price in Lon.
don than ever before.
a CALL has been made for the reunion Of
tho original California 4gcrs
InE bay State Agricultural Society has
decided TO hold no county fairs this year.
ITALY has tho largest gtn in the world.
~ Is iorty-sir feet long and weighs lls
tons.
A. many as a hundred quakings OF the
sarth a day have been registered In New
Zealand.
pAVlD HosrETTrR, OF bitters fame, is
worth tlGoo0,0o0 Twenty-Five years ago
nc was peddlor,
hiTRAtLlEusr is being tried In the Aus
trian army which will tro thousand bull
lets In ninety seconds
NEw YoRK man adycrtiscs 10 restore
Did paintings a witty exchange wonders
how many he has stolen.
WEDDING cake was imported from Lon.
don Tor marriage which took place In
Now York few days ago.
1Hr output Of the locomotive works OF
the country now averages from thirty-six
TO forty engines per week.
millionaire win soon leave Paris TO mako
her home in San Fraucisco
'SrnfLgE drinkn Is being advertised
In London A 'tubiloe CONN., had pro-
Niousiy made It's appearance.
TnE Grant monument committee now
think $4,000 sufficient for tho proposed
memorial 10 the dead rhieftain.
Iris estimated that 900 men on the New
York police force weigh 10000 pounds or
anaTerage Of 30 pounds man.
RUSSIAN engineer has discovered n
process Of crystalliEing petroleum so Il
may he transported more easily.
FouR hundred young men Of louisville
have formed an organization for business
purposes aud To 'boom'' the city,
TnERr are 1890 papers in tho United
States and Territories, Including Canada,
an Increase Of bsl during last year.
SIDNEY WooItErT the elocutionist, Ia
said 10 have memoriEed more than throo
hundred thousand verses OF poetry
AT tho mouth OF a Cornish mine there is
this advice 'Do not fall down this shaft,
As thero are men nj work at tho bottom Of
it,n
DR. voS KrRtS, Dayton tO.) linguist,
Will undertake the work OF translatlng tho
medical and sanitary features Of Tho Tai.
mud.
TIWIucen Of Sweden has undergone an
operation nj Stockholm for cancer, but tho
hopes OF her ultimate recovery arc very
doubtful.
LoHDoS newspapers arc making prepa'
raiions and employing correspondents in
anticipation Of war on tho continent In tho
near future.
AT Bergen, Norway, is a church con.
ttruciod entirely Of papicr mache. II Is
octagonal in shape and viii accommodate
100 persons
ANoSo the millionaire girls in Wpshihg.
ton society are the Misses Riggs, who sue.
coed, with their brothers, 10 their fathers
banking business.
jar GouLp's new private car, now under
construction, win cos, Se0,ooo. II will be
20 feet long, have fve apartments and be
called tho Atlanta.
BitLT ENERsoS, the minstrel, whowri,os
his first namo with little b, receives $500
week and travels in private car with
his wife wherever he COOS
MARX TWAIN often astonishcs the good
people Of Hartford by laughing outright in
church when the pious pastor says things
the humorist docs not believe
TnE crater Kilauca OF the volcano Mauna
Ioa, is thrco miles long. two miles wide
and In places 500 feet deep. Tho boiling
lava can be seen in many places
TnI payroll Of the Queen OF England's
household shows an Official ratcatchcr ut
Windsor, at a salary Of $50 per annum, and
another for Buckingham Palace at $Go,
TnE Jacksonville Southern Lender, n pa
per published by colorcd men, says that
the l50,Oo0 colored citizens OF Florida own
property to tho value OF about s1,0O0,0O0.
THE latest estimates place Belgium OF
the head OF the beer drinking countries Of
Europe. The consumption per capita is
six.tenths in excess Of that of Germany.
UNc1E BILLY DAVIS, an old negro, living
at Mayncld, Ky, thinks he is contona-
rian, hut this did not prevent him from
marrying girl OF twenty-five the other
day.
JoHS BuSrkN used tho slang expression,
"It's u cold day for them in an essay
against the Roman Catholic clergy, which
makes tho phrase about two hunered and
twenty years old.
THR express robbcr has no longer tho
monopoly OF crime on the iron highways.
Freight train robbers arc coming TO the
front, the last discovered crew being on
the III. Wayne road.
The most uncommon names in English
are those which begin with Y. There are
mono in the New York directory. Phila-
dclphia, however, presents the.names Of
Xaviers, Xandcr and Xandry.
pIRp's nest found on the roof near tho
United States mint in Washington, was
beautifully lined with gold. The parent
bird had carried of gold dust in its
feathers and shaken them out in its tiny
home.
MAHLoN SHALBRR, OF Reading, Pa,
stands six feet eight inches high. He
has been appointed to the position of
chief of police. Ho is unique character
in that placo-the tallest policeman in
America.
Russell Cox, OF Holdernoss, N. H., who
is ninety years of age, is suffering from
severe attack OF whooping cough. His
mother who died recently, had the whoop-
ing cough when she was one hundred and
one years OF age.
TuE United States soldier, when
equipped with rife and cartridge-bels
three days cooked rations and 100 rounds
of ball cartridges and "kit' Of clothing,
carries weight of over fifty-five pounds.
THERE is proposition before the Illinois
Legislature to have the school books
printed by the convicts Of the State prison.
ANTHONY BARmos, son of the late Presi-
dent OF Guatemala, is student Of West
Point, and young zarala, son OF the man
who overthrow and cnused the death OF
President Barrios, is also at West Point,
and is his classmate.
In a letter from German physician,who
Is a resident of Brazil, II is stated that
permanganate OF potash is as infailible an